Alkane

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  • noun. Any member of the alkane series.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A hydrocarbon, CnH2n+2, of the marsh-gas or methane series: official name.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a non-aromatic saturated acyclic hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2). A member of the alkane series.
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  • noun. Any of saturated hydrocarbons including methane, ethane and compounds with long carbon chain known as paraffins etc., having a chemical formula of the form CnH2n+2.
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  • noun. a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
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